Photos of the Day: Dec. 19

Dec. 19, 2012 4:52 p.m. ET

fullscreen

LOOKING UP: A worker looked out from a chimney that was being renovated at a brick factory in Lalitpur, Nepal, Wednesday.
Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters…

SPACE CADETS: Supporters of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gathered before a Soyuz rocket carrying him, American Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko departed for the international space station in a Soyuz spacecraft from the steppes of Kazakhstan Wednesday.
Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press…

LINING UP: Catholic nuns lined up to vote for president at a polling station in Busan, South Korea, Wednesday. Voters elected conservative lawmaker Park Geun-hye, the daughter of the general who ruled the country in the 1960s and 1970s, to be their first woman leader.
Ha Kyung-Min/Newsis/Reuters…

METAL MEN: A group of people dressed as metal statues sat on the ground near a collection can in downtown Rome Wednesday.
Filippo Monteforte/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

SIGN OF APPRECIATION: A man held a 'thank you' sign toward firefighters who lined a street during a funeral procession for Daniel Barden, 7 years old, in Newton, Conn. Daniel, who was among 20 children killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, had wanted to become a firefighter.
Mike Segar/Reuters…

RELIEF: Lawmaker Andy Burnham hugged Margaret Aspinall, right, and Jenni Hicks, left, Wednesday in London after the High Court quashed the original accidental-death verdicts returned after Liverpool soccer fans were crushed to death in 1989. A new investigation was ordered. The women both lost relatives.
Carl Court/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

POKER FACE: New recruits held playing cards between their chins and chests during a drill in Shangqiu, Henan province, China, Wednesday.
ChinaFotoPress/Zuma Press…

LINED UP: A woman placed provisions in her bag as food and toys were distributed at a social center in Lisbon Wednesday. The 'Legião da Boa Vontade' organization helps some 300 families during Christmas in Lisbon.
Rafael Marchante/Reuters…

OUTRAGE: Police officers stood near demonstrators at police headquarters in New Delhi Wednesday. The alleged hourslong gang-rape and beating of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus has drawn widespread condemnation. Doctors say the woman is in critical condition.
Altaf Qadri/Associated Press…

WEAPONS CACHE: Confiscated weapons dangled from a magnet before they were destroyed at a foundry in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday. Hundreds of firearms were destroyed as part of a government-arms control program.
Ivan Alvarado/Reuters…

TARGETED: A polio-vaccination worker received medical treatment Wednesday in Peshawar, Pakistan, after armed men shot him. Polio is endemic in Pakistan, where religious clerics and pro-Taliban groups claim the vaccine is meant to sterilize Pakistanis.
Arshad Arbab/European Pressphoto Agency…

CRUCIFIX AND A QURAN: A demonstrator held a crucifix and a Quran during a protest Tuesday outside the presidential palace against President Mohammed Morsi. Protesters oppose an Islamist-backed draft constitution.
Ashraf Amra/APA Images/Zuma Press…

LUCKY 13: A 7-foot-tall number "13" arrived outside the Times Square Museum & Visitor Center in New York Wednesday. The number will be displayed at the museum until Dec. 26, at which point it will be installed atop One Times Square.
Andrew Burton/Reuters…

TANDEM JUMP: Skiers competed during the men's ski cross World Cup event at the Val Thorens ski resort in the French Alps Wednesday.
Laurent Cipriani/Associated Press…